ORIENTAL REGION
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Etymology: n.s. [fine, elegant (L)]
Type locality: Karwar, Bombay, India
Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Oriental - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Oriental - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles (Cel.) Neomyzomyia Series - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles (Cel.) Neomyzomyia Series - Indomalaya - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles (Cel.) Neomyzomyia Series - Oriental - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles (Cel.) Neomyzomyia Series - Oriental - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
All Anophleles elegans DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
India, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES:
James 1903: 51 (F*; Myzomyia?)
Reid 1949: 46 (from syn. with leucosphyrus)
Colless 1956: 75 (M, F*, P*, E; taxonomy)
Mendis et al. 1983 (P, L; bionomics)
Townsend 1990: 70 (improper type information)
Sallum et al. 2005: 180 (M, F, P*, L*; type info, taxonomy)
Sallum et al. 2005: 49 (M, F*, P*, L*)
Sallum et al. 2007: 30 (phylogeny)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
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CURRENT SUBSPECIES
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CITED REFERENCES
Colless, D.H. (1956). The Anopheles leucosphyrus group. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 108(3), 37–116.
James, S.P. 1903. Anopheles aitkenii, n. sp., p. 22. In: F. V. Theobald, A monograph of the Culicidae or mosquitoes. Vol. III, British Museum of Natural History, London. 359 p.
Mendis, K.N., Ihalamulla, R.L., Peljton, E.L., & Nanayakkara, S. (1983). Biology and descriptions of the larva and pupa of Anopheles (Cellia) elegans James (1903). Mosquito Systematics, 15(4), 318–324.
Reid, J.A. (1949). A preliminary account of the forms of Anopheles leucosphyrus Doenitz (Diptera: Culicidae). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society B, 18(3–4), 42–53.
Sallum, M.A.M., Foster, P.G., Li, C., Sithiprasasna, R., & Wilkerson, R.C. (2007). Phylogeny of the Leucosphyrus Group of Anopheles (Cellia) (Diptera: Culicidae) based on mitochondrial gene sequences. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 100(1), 27–35.
Sallum, M.A.M., Peyton, EL, & Wilkerson, R.C. (2005a). Six new species of the Anopheles leucosphyrus group, reinterpretation of An. elegans and vector implications. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 19, 158–199.
Sallum, M.A.M., Peyton, EL, Harrison, B.A., & Wilkerson, R.C. (2005b). Revision of the Leucosphyrus Group of Anopheles (Cellia) (Diptera: Culicidae). Revista Brasileira de entomología, 49(Suppl. 1), 1–152.
Townsend, B.C. (1990). Culicidae. In B.C. Townsend, J. E. Chainey, R.W. Crosskey, A.C. Pont, R.P. Lane, J.P.T. Boorman, & C.A. Crouch (Eds.), A catalogue of the types of bloodsucking flies in the British Museum (Natural History) (pp. 35–152). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles elegans species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/elegans, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].